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Review of Phaedra
Phaedra
"A memorable encounter between the classic and the contemporary."
- Sue Wilson, the Independent.
" My challenge was to make it somehow immediate and attractive to a present-day audience."
- Edwin Morgan.
"Risky, expensive, uncompromising, bold as brass, it's a show that's bound to be ragingly
controversial yet it burns with an intensity fit to scorch the stage beneath its feet and leaves
the audience in no doubt that something elemental has
happened."
- Joyce McMillan, the Scotsman, 20/4/2000.
"it draws an energy from its very riskiness ... its finest passages smoulder and soar with
a terrible music."
- Joyce McMillan, the Scotsman, 20/4/2000.
"Its pace is riveting, its physical presence unforgettable. And it's one of those shows after
which nothing can quite be the same again."
- Joyce McMillan, the Scotsman, 20/4/2000.
"An absolute classic of new writing for the theatre."
- Keith Bruce, the Herald, 18/4/2000.
"Morgan's attempt at a great tragedy extends the possibilities of literature in Scots."
- James Campbell, the TLS, 12/5/2000.
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"A memorable encounter between the classic and the contemporary."
- Sue Wilson, the Independent.
" My challenge was to make it somehow immediate and attractive to a present-day audience."
- Edwin Morgan.
"Risky, expensive, uncompromising, bold as brass, it's a show that's bound to be ragingly
controversial yet it burns with an intensity fit to scorch the stage beneath its feet and leaves
the audience in no doubt that something elemental has
happened."
- Joyce McMillan, the Scotsman, 20/4/2000.
"it draws an energy from its very riskiness ... its finest passages smoulder and soar with
a terrible music."
- Joyce McMillan, the Scotsman, 20/4/2000.
"Its pace is riveting, its physical presence unforgettable. And it's one of those shows after
which nothing can quite be the same again."
- Joyce McMillan, the Scotsman, 20/4/2000.
"An absolute classic of new writing for the theatre."
- Keith Bruce, the Herald, 18/4/2000.
"Morgan's attempt at a great tragedy extends the possibilities of literature in Scots."
- James Campbell, the TLS, 12/5/2000.
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